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Tamakore
My ancient ancestors were such a diverse bunch. How can I characterize my billions of genetic ancestors with just one ancient ethnicity label?
Lower Rhine Bell Beaker might cover the majority of my ancient European ancestors in the 3rd millennium BC, but DNA tells me that Bell Beakers were themselves derived from earlier ancient populations. Three major components were WHG, Anatolian Neolithic and Yamnaya. In turn, Yamnaya were made up of EHG and CHG. Both EHG and CHG had a substantial ANE component. So it seems many ancient ethnicities were nested within other ancient ethnicities.
I could choose ANE to represent the source of Y haplogroup R* and pre-PIE (proto-Eurasiatic). But then there is also Melanesian and indigenous Taiwanese, the two major ancient components of my Maori ancestry.
Perhaps I should go really ancient and just identify as Simian.
It's refreshing to see someone with your attitude.
I have to remind myself of this sometimes. Yes, finding out that a lot of my ancestry is Latin and Greek "like" is what I had hoped to find, but there are no "pure" ethnic groups. You have to keep in mind the past admixtures which led to those groups, and accept all the ancestral groups which went into making you, "you".
Non si fa il proprio dovere perchè qualcuno ci dica grazie, lo si fa per principio, per se stessi, per la propria dignità. Oriana Fallaci